Ni Hau Ma, Beijing..

I've been to Beijing, China from 10-17 April 2015. Its been almost six month after my trip, so i pon tak ingat sangat about the city. Maybe because i don't fall in love with Beijing. Wa pu ai ni Beijing. Hahaha. But, let me write what i remember okay..

I think its hard to communicate here as the Chinese people here can't understand English. I had a very hard time since my arrival until the last day there. Being cheated by a taxi drivers for 3 times, left by the roadside, super cold rain during my walk, sand storm after a decade is happening a lot of bad experience.

I stay at Beijing Prime Hotel in Wangfujing district. This hotel is a very big hotel here and quite safe. If you are woman, and travelling alone or with woman as well, you may consider to stay here. The price is CNY 3,700 for 7D 6N. The hotel is so clean. This is my first time in China. They do sell stuff in the room. From the food, to the toilettries. And also Chinese medicine. Hehehe...

So as the hotel is in Wangfujin area, i sempat la jalan-jalan kat situ. This place known as the best shopping area in Beijing. Ala-ala Oxford Street kat London.

I went to the Ming Tombs as part of a day tour to the Great Wall and it was well worth a visit. We found it useful to go with a guide who could explain the history and significance as I don't know how much you would understand otherwise. So we take a tour from our hotel. It cost us CNY 200 per person.

The place is very peaceful to walk around and you can feel the history that surrounds the sights, Going down into the tombs underground was very exciting and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Would recommend this attraction as part of a day tour. Our tour guide name is Angel. She is soooo funneh. Hehehe. And she speak broken English all the time. Dalam group from my hotel ada lebih kurang 9 pax. So naik coach untuk tour. Helok-helok matsaleh dalam couch tu. Bergetar tulang rusuk i. Hahahaha.. There is one ritual before u left The Ming Tomb. Sebelum keluar gate kena hentak kaki, sapu-sapu baju and badan and sebut " Wo Hu Lai Le". Tour guide kata supaya roh-roh jahat tak ikut kita balek. So berdekak-dekak i ngan abam mat saleh hentak-hentak kaki sambil cakap Cina.

You are not a man until you climb the Great Wall of China..

This is a very popular Chinese proverb in Chinese culture. I didn’t hear about it until I had visited the Great Wall, but it seems that climbing the Great Wall is something of a rite of passage. After I put the pictures up on Facebook, all my Chinese friends would mention my pictures and that I must be a man now that I have climbed the Great Wall. But man? Hahaha.. Im a woman. Janganlah jadi pengkid pulak nanti.

The wall itself was spectacular. The sheer magnitude of the wall is amazing. I going up by sliding car and go down by the sliding car also. I would like to take the cable car but the weather is quite bad and they stop the cable car operation. Nak panjat pakai kaki, uhhh tak mampu i. So, I only climbed a small portion of the wall, but it made me realize just how large such a project would have been. Especially such a long time ago, the wall could only have been finished with a huge amount of labor by the Chinese people. Also, you never realize how much you appreciate steps that are all the same size and even until you encounter some steps that are not. The steps up the Great Wall of China were as huge as the itself and often took (for someone short and rendang tak berbuah like me) a full extension of the leg in order to reach some of the steps.

If you ramble along Wangfujing Street in the evening during your Beijing Travel, it is advisable to visit its neighbouring Wangfujing Night Food Street. Tempat ni dekat je ngan my hotel. So jalan kaki je dalam 5 minutes. Ade sekali tu hujan plak masa nak balek. Dah la sejuk, hujan plak buat muka i kebas lari-lari anak balek hotel. Actually Wangfujing Night Food Street is formally called “Donghuamen Night Food Street, which is located on Donganmen Street linked to the west of the crossroad at the northern tip of Wangfujing Pedestrian Street.

Wangfujing Night Snack Street is often called by tourists while Donghuamen Night Snack Street by the local residents in Beijing. They both refer to the same night food market in Wangfujing area.This 100-meter long snack street is open from 6:00pm to 9:00pm every day. The night market is home to about 100 stalls selling over 100 snacks from all over China.

For adventurous dinners, it is a food paradise with such unique snacks as centipedes, lizards, deep fried crickets , starfish and a lot more available to eat on a stick. I am a muslim so that i cant take the exotic snacks and go for octopus only. Hahaha. But guys, its something that you can look forward when you're in Beijing. Im so sad to see the starfish, lizards on a stick to be eat.. Hurmm..

Also masa kat sana, berlakunya sand storm. Ribut pasir selepas berdekad tak jadi di Beijing. Memang scary. Sayangnya i dah delete pulak gambar-gambar tu. Memang kuning and tak nampak pape. So i duk rest je dalam bilik 2 hari. Rugi-rugi. Takde plak number telephone Shila Amzah, kalo tak boleh jugak lepak makan starfish dengan dia. Bosan kot.. Hahahaha..

Tapi sempat jugaklah pegi shopping-shopping kat Silk Market. Bapak besar tempat dia. Nasib baik Nudinmi ada. Dapatlah rega murah uols.. I just cakap Si Sie Ni je masa last urusniaga. Hahaha! So its time to go back home. I'm coming home.. Coming home.. tell the world that i coming home!

But i do enjoy the trips. China, wo hui lai le!

Boracay Sangat Okay..

Okay gais.. First post i nak cerita pasal trip i to Boracay. I've travelled to Boracay on 8-11 October yang lepas. With a new travel buddy. And it end up like a nightmare. Trauma dah pasni nak travel ngan org lain selain my beloved buddies. But it's okay, skang bukan nak story pasal dia, but pasal the beautiful Boracay Island.

Okay, this is my first time flying with Air Asia. Selama ni travel with Malaysia Airlines je. But to Kalibo, hanya Air Asia je yang ada. So i redha. They only have one flight fly daily to Kalibo. I choose hot seat which is the emergency exit which i thought will give me extra space for leg room, but it's not. The same experience when i travel with Jet Airways and Indian Air before. I pasrah. Almost 4 hours in flight. I ni memang jenis tak boleh tido kalau dalam flight. That's why i suka Malaysia Airlines sebab boleh tengok movie. So during my flight to Kalibo, i makan and makan and makan. Hahahaha...

Kalibo Airport tu kecik lahaii. Jalan sejengkal terus keluar. Beratur lama jugak kat kaunter imegresen sebab ramai tourist that time. Then keluar je dari Airport, adalah banyak van, bus, taxi yang offer service to Caticlan Jetty. Kalau naik van, rega dia dalam PHP 250 per pax. Tapi i kan princess, mana nak berlama-lama dalam van. So we take a cab to Caticlan Jetty. It cost us PHP1,200 for 1.5 hours journey to Caticlan termasuk tiket bot dan environmental fees. Mabuhayyy!

Sampai je terus ambik trishaw to our hotel. We stay at Boracay Eden Villa. We stay for 4D 3N for PHP 800 including breakfast. Booking made through Booking,Com.Tapi jauhnya terpencil villa ni. Located at Station 3. But the owner of this villa and his wife Mhe Ann, are so kind and generous. They help me a lot. Banyak kali jugak berbalas-balas email with them tanya pasal Boracay ni. And they help me. So i datang with some souvenir for them. I bawak T-Shirt tulis I Love Kuala Lumpur, mug and cap Malaysia for them. Orang berbudi kita berbahasa la kan.. Room sangat besar dan comfy. Our room facing the pool and we have breakfast on bed everyday. Mhe Ann akan bagi menu. Order la nak breakfast apa, so they will cook and send to your room. And ada halal food tau.

So everyday and night i ulang alik naik trishaw pegi Station 2, its the centre of Boracay. Trishaw will cost you around PHP 50- 80 per way. If u need some privacy, go and stay in Station 2. I regret to stay in Station 3. Its takes 10 minute ride to the Station 2. At night i spend my time having a good dinner by the beach, and listening to music. There's a lot of pub along the beach. Choose where to spend your time with. The food is quite expensive here. We spend around PHP1,000-1,200 for each meal.

Boracay is such a beautiful place. You may find a lot of activities here. Don't forgot to get a braids done. Hahaha i tukar fashion 2 kali. The price is PHP300. Boleh lagi nego-nego. Since i kat Boracay ni ramai betul cakap Tagalog dengan i. When i told them them im not Filipino, they said i look like one. Some of them laughing and said its funny to know that im not one. Yeahh Malays and Filipino look alike lah. Salamat po! Haaha..

Then i have tried the Helmet Diving for PHP650. This is a very awesome stuff i've ever done. Seriously, i felt so happy. Rasa tanak naik sampai orang tu tarik tiub oxygen i suruh naik atas. Hahaha. Btw, u will get a copy of CD. They shoot your video and taking ur picture underwater. Cool huh?

And one more things that makes me happy is when i spend my night time talking, playing and learning with 3 Filipino kids. Alex, Don and Ben. This kids looking for money at the beach. Cari tourist, offer tulis nama dorg kat pasir pantai and pay them seikhlas hati. Gitew. I pon mintak lah dorang buat nama i. Bukan sebab nak sangat tapi kesian kat dorg. Umur dorang around 8-10 tahun.So i pay them PHP60. Boleh la dorg share sorang 20 kan. Sambil dorang buat bende alah tu, i pun sembang-sembang la dengan dorang. Best giler. End up kami berempat main lari-lari and kejar-kejar kat tepi pantai. Disebabkan Don yang paling kecik and muda, dia jadi mangsa untuk kami baling ke laut. Ohh mana travel buddy i eh? Duduk mereput kat table minum. And i have so much fun with this 3 kids. Menghilangkan luka i sepanjang di Boracay. Then, dorg ajar i buat nama i sendiri. And tadaaaa... i buat sendiri nama i. Bolehla lepas ni i offer this service kat Malaysia. Maybe kat PD ke, Langkawi ke.. Hahahahaha! I happy sangat main sampai taknak balek. I miss them already. Alex, Don and Ben, i will come back.

Banyak lagi aktiviti yang i tak sempat nak buat since travel buddy i jatuh sakit on the 3rd day. So we go to clinic and doctor advise to avoid all water activities. Berapi sungguh hati i. I nak sangat naik Paraw Sailing Boat, Parasailing, and naik ATV pegi Mount Luho. Nak jugak pegi swim at Puka Beach and Crystal Cove. Tapi ape nak buat. ( hati berdarah sangat ).

Banyak lagi benda best kat Boracay ni. Banyak lagi gambar sebenarnya nak tunjuk. But, kang you gais muak pulak. Hehehe. I wanna go to Boracay again! Yes, i will.. Boracay, tunggu aku datang. Aalis nak ako!

Travel Is My Soulmate..

I loves to travel. Travel is one of the happiness i love because the world is a book to be read over and over again. I love to go out there and see the world. This is my travel map for 2013 to 2015. I've been visited to many great places. I will write a review of my travel trip later. ( if i have time and rajin enough laa) Hahaha..

2016, i'm gonna save more money to travel. It's better now right? I should go and visit the world while i'm still single. If i'm married someday, i think it may be hard for me to travel with baby and what so on. Lain la if i kahwin dengan husband yang kaya. So that i can live a life of Che' Ta and Zain Saidin. Or maybe Scha Al-Yahya and Awal Ashaari. Kecik-kecik Aisyah and Lara Alana dah travel around the world.

What 2016 have for me so far? I always travel with my buddies. Travel with them is way better than anybody else. Yeahh i've tried to travel with a new travel buddy to Boracay. And it end up, like a nightmare.Me and my buddies, we have a birthday trip in Janda Baik, Pahang on January. We've confirmed flight to Bali on February. And confirmed flight to Kelantan( Perhentian Island) on April. Alia, Epul, Naza and Afiq already bought flight tickets to Melbourne on August. I still considering weither i wanna join them or going on my own way. Era wanna go to Boracay and ask me to go with her. I've been to Boracay last October and i really loves that place. So i might wanna go to Boracay instead of Melbourne. But i also planning to go to Stockholm, Sweden to visit a friend. Urghh.. How i wish money will fall down from trees. How i wish i have a lot to spend for travelling.

I believe all of you have your travel wishlist right? For me, i loves beaches. I love the feel of sugar-powdered sand on my feet. I love the ocean smells, and gazing at stars by the beach at night. So i have Palawan and Maldives on my list. I've do some research of Palawan, but the journey to reach Palawan is way too long. Gonna save Maldives for my honeymoon. Hahaha entah bila la pulak nak kawin nak honeymoon bagai?

Oh Maldives. I acah-acah nak amik gambar macamni nanti dengan future shuben i. Tapi sampai sekarang belom nampak bayang dia nak datang. Hahaha. I hope bakal shuben i nanti pon gila travelling. But not backpackers kinda thing eh. Becoz i travel like a princess. Hahaha gila tak princess, pegi Boracay pun bawak luggage kot. Mohon bakal shuben i ready la nak usung naik ferry and what so on.

Disebabkan i love beaches so much, teringin rasanya nak ambik Diving Licence. Selama ni tak pernah pun i dive or snorkelling. Hahaha. Entahlah, belum rasa nak buat. Selalunya ala-ala gedik mandi pantai, celup-celup kaki and swimming. And i've tried Helmet Diving before, rasa besh gila. So maybe next year kenalah buat benda-benda baru pulak kan?

Let's see.. Finding Nemo maybe?

I Believe I Can't Fly..

Yeahh. I have a flight to catch on 28th December, which i've bought before i'm injured. I've apply leave and buy ticket to going back to my dad's house in Penang. However, with my injuries, i'm unable to sit. How can i fly back to Penang?

I've emailed Malaysia Airlines to postpone my flight date. Maybe to January 2016 ( i hope i'm okay by that time), but it's been 3 days and i don't get any reply from Malaysia Airlines. I haven't found anything that satisfactorily helps me to ease the pain. I'm worried that it will getting worst if i hop on that flight. The donut cushion and the painkiller is not working for me. So what should i do?

Why Malaysia Airlines takes so long to reply me? This email thing is not working out is it? So i give another day for their reply, before i call the helpline directly. I have medical conditions here and not fit to fly.

I'm so bored at home. My housemate, Era arrived her hometown in Terengganu already. All of my friend also going back to their hometown. Naza in Terengganu, Epul and Aezad in Pahang, Paul in JB, Afiq in Seremban and Alia is in Amsterdam for a long holiday. And i? Still on my bed, alone! I felt like crying. I feel so lonely..

My Oh My Tailbone..

Wonder why i have time to create this new blog? Why i spend my time writing and posting entry to my blog? Because i'm on a longgg medical leave. I got 2 days from Private Clinic and 32 days from Goverment Hospital. What?? 32 days? Yeahh trust me. I have 34 days in total of medical leave.

What actually happen is i fall down from stairs in UPM Banquet Hall on 12 December. Its raining cats and dogs that day, the steps was slippery. It's possible to know when disaster strikes. It can't be sniffed out. The next thing i know, i felt so painful and i can't sit.

I've met orthopedic, doing a lot of x-ray and the doctor said i have coccyx fracture. What is coccyx fracture? A coccyx fracture is a fracture of the coccyx, commonly called a 'broken tailbone'. The coccyx is located at the base of the spine, under the sacrum. It is the last section of the ape vertebral column. Hah confirm tak paham kan? Okay, i show u here!

It's the tailbone. It's the red screw in the picture. It's been 13 days already but i still can't sit properly. I am so bored laying on my bed. I try to find some alternatives. And i found about Bomoh Patah Haji Daud through google. So on my 9th day, i go to his clinic in Jalan Kebun Lama Kelang. Its 27km from my house. My housemate, Era drove me there. Luckily we have Waze.

When we arrived, we take numbers and patiently waiting for my turn. Haji Daud is a very warm and kind man. He do not speak much. I got to know from google that a lot of patient with fracture or broken bone came here for treatment. And its true. I can see a lot of people with crutches, walkers and wheelchair.

When its my turn i felt so nervous. "Kenapa hari ni baru datang" Haji Daud tanya. And then my housemate jawab "Ohhh baru tau harini pasal tempat ni". Huh, thanks Era. You are my life saver. I was so busy imagining how the treatment will be. Haji Daud terus urut my tailbone. And i? Menjerit dan berpeluh menahan kesakitan. Ya Allah sakit giler guys! Tak tipuu.. But ramai yang okay berubat dengan Haji Daud. If u all nak cuba, boleh la pergi klinik dia ye.

And today, i still can't sit. I think maybe urut is not so good for a tailbone fracture like me. I google again, what is the best treatment for Coccyx Fracture. And the most answer i got is REST. Ohmaiii.. It will take 1-2 month to heal. I can't wait that long. How about my work? I'm the head of my department. I can't be at home for that long. I have a lot of work to do.

It's been almost 2 weeks since I falled down and it's still painful, particularly when sitting down and transitioning between standing up and sitting down.I also buy a donut cushion which suggested by the doctor. But i still can't sit on that. Painful. Does anyone have a similar experience?I'm also quite a active person and unfortunately with this damage I can't move a lot as well as I used to. Does anyone know of any techniques to put the pain to ease? The pain hasn't got any better in the last 2 weeks. All I want to be able to do is to get well. The pain, i can't stand anymore. My next appointment with orthopedic is on 19 January. Eh its my birthday!

When Life Hand You Lemon..

This is post from my Wordpress on January 2014. I love to read it again and again and again. This is what motivated me.

"This morning I didn’t feel like doing anything. It’s a combination of overtiredness from a few days of hard work, and a lack of sleep last night.

I couldn’t motivate myself to do anything important this morning, which is a rare thing for me. And I just felt bad in general. I started to doubt myself, and wonder whether anything I do is worthwhile.

I sat here in this funk and wondered how to get out of it. Should I just forget about today? Should I just give up what I do, because I’m not as good at it as I thought I was?

That was definitely what I was considering. But I knew this mild depression was temporary, and so I thought about possible solutions. And then some of them actually worked — little tricks of the mind that can have a real effect on reality.

Here’s what I did that worked, in hopes that it might help some of u if these feelings ever come up..

1. I stopped being so self-centered. I think we all have the tendency to put ourselves at the center of the universe, and see everything from the viewpoint of how it affects us. But this can have all kinds of effects, from feeling sorry for ourselves when things aren’t going exactly as we’d like, to doubting ourselves when we aren’t perfect. So instead of worrying so much about myself, I thought about other people I might help. Finding small ways to help others gets me out of my self-centered thinking, and then I’m not wallowing in self-pity anymore — I’m starting to think about what others need. I’m not doubting myself, because the question of whether I’m good enough or not is not the central question anymore. The central question is what others need. So thinking about others instead of myself helps solve self-doubt and self-pity.

2. I loosened my identity. We all have this picture of ourselves, this idea of what kind of person we are. When this idea gets threatened, we can react very defensively. People can question whether we did a good job, and this threatens our idea of ourselves as competent and so we can become angry or hurt at the criticism. Someone can accuse you of lying and this threatens your idea that you’re a good person, and so you can get angry and attack the other person. My identity of myself as someone who is motivated and productive and has good ideas and so forth … this was getting in the way this morning. When I wasn’t productive, it made me despair because then I was worried I wasn’t who I thought I was. My solution was to realize that I’m not one thing. I’m not always productive sometimes I am, but sometimes I’m lazy. I’m not always motivated,sometimes I am, but other times I don’t feel like working. I don’t always have good ideas. I can be many things, and so this identity of mine becomes less fragile, more antifragile. Then it doesn’t matter if someone thinks I didn’t do a good job — because I don’t always do a good job. I make mistakes, I am less than perfect. And that’s perfectly OK.

3. I remembered that this day counts. I only have so many days left on earth. I don’t know how many that is, but I do know it’s a very limited number. I know that each one of those limited days is a gift, a blessing, a miracle. And that squandering this miracle is a crime, a horrible lack of appreciation for what I’ve been given. And so, I reminded myself this morning that this day counts. That I should do something with it. That doesn’t mean I need to work myself into the ground, type until my fingers are mere nubs, but that I should do something worthwhile. Sometimes taking a break to nourish yourself is a worthwhile activity, because that allows you to do other worthwhile things, but just sitting around in self-pity isn’t helpful, I’ve found. So I got up and did something.

4. I created movement. It can be hard to get moving when you are stuck. This is how I felt in 2011 when I couldn’t change any of my habits. It was really hard to motivate myself when I didn’t think I would succeed, when I felt horrible about myself. But I took one small step, and it felt good. That’s what I did this morning — I took the smallest possible step. Just opening up a document, just starting a list, just getting out a notebook. These are so small as to be insignificant, and yet so easy as to be possible. And it showed me the next step was possible, and the next.

I’m still feeling tired, and so I’ll take a nap later. But I’m feeling better, because I took these steps.

I know some of you feel the same way from time to time, maybe more often than you’d like to admit. That’s OK. We all do. We are not machines, perfectly oiled and constantly charged up and ready to fire on all cylinders. We are human, which means we falter, we doubt, we feel pain.

And this too shall pass. InsyaAllah. Amin amin ya rabbal alamin.."

From A Tree To Another Tree..

This is a post from my old blog dated 28 May 2009.

"Emm that’s what Faz told me..She said that I’m hopping from a tree to a tree..To find a branch which I can hang on to.Yes, I’m agreed. Now I’m searchin for a branch that can make me stand strongly. There’s a lot trees,but I should find the one with strong root,so I can hanging strongly.. If not, I’ll blow away with the wind.
To find a good tree,I should think of it carefully..A good tree with a strong root, with a good fertilizer, growing up fruity or maybe bloomy.. I’m hanging on a tree,then to the another tree. Then when can I find my tree? Or should I start gardening?
Now I’m hoping for one tree that I wanna love to hanging with..But I don’t know either I can be the owner of that tree and now with me there’s another good tree that waving me n want me to be his owner. Should I stay with my dream? Wishing for something unclear? Or should I grab the chances in front of me?

Zetty, make up ur mind n think like a wise person darling!"

And yet, here i am. After 6 years, still nodding in front of the lappy, thinking that yeahh i am that girl. Erkk or may i address myself as woman now? I've added another 6 years on my age from teh day i wrote that post. Gulpp! Time flies so fast. And how i am still here? Single? Looking for the trees that i want to be with. To seed, to plant, to water it, to get the nice fruits from farming.. Ehh i sound like im on Farmville do i?

Transition Of To Hide Or Not To Hide..

Welcome to my new blog guys. Actually this is my 3rd blog. I've started blogging since 2009 with one secret blog which i call Secret Diaries Of Mine. That blog, dollsofthedown.blogspot.com is a private blog which i write a lot of my life's secret. Yeah i love to write. I feel its hard for me to voice out and tell what i feel inside. So there is where i let my anger, frustration and happiness flows!

Secondly, on 2013 i have a wordpress account which i made private as well. Yeah i guess its hard to write something and let the whole world read it. But what is the point of doing that? I guess life is a big experience which we should shared. To learn from others mistakes. To gain knowledge from all of the people out there..

I may not have many to offers. But i do feel, maybe somewhere, someone will be inspired by me. Or will shared the same thought of how i see this world. And i think its time for me to stand out, not hiding behind my keyboard anymore. Oh well, i'm not a keyboard warrior guys. Don't expect much from me huh!

However i will try to share some post from my old blogs here. And will let u see, the world through my perspective. Happy scrolling. Happy reading.  Revealing what behind the curtains of a single, plump, 31 years old woman, happy but not so happy me! I loves travelling, cooking, reading, singing, and watching movie. Probably i will write about all of my passions in this blog. Anything else to know about me? Well for me to know and for you to find out.

Muahciked ..